Procrastineers Rejoice! 2026 Supercon Call For Participation Extended

A few weeks ago, we put out the call for participation for this year’s 2026 Hackaday Supercon, taking place in Pasadena, CA this November. Today was going to be the …read more

However you make a digital computer, you need something to represent a binary digit. Usually this is some form of switch: a relay, a tube, or a transistor, although there …read more

Linux Fu: Heads Or Tails For VPN

If you’ve done much networking, you surely know the frustration of trying to connect to something, say a Raspberry Pi, that lives behind your consumer router. There are a number …read more

The Physics Of Keeping Thermal Power Stations Cool

Recently thermal power stations have been in the news quite a bit, mostly in the context of them being throttled back or shut down due to the river water used …read more

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Hackaday Podcast Episode 382: Glueballs, Borg Cubes, And Supersonic Trebuchets

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By Kristina Panos | August 14, 2026

It’s still hot on both sides of the Atlantic, but Kristina has a new secret weapon for staying cool without making noise. Will Elliot and the others follow suit? Time …read more
Snooping Flume Water Monitor Data On The Wire

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By Zoe Skyforest | August 14, 2026

[Stephen] had an interesting piece of hardware at home—namely, a Flume water monitor. It’s a smart device which reports usage data to Flume’s servers, and the water utility in turn. …read more
This Week In Security: BugTraq, AI Hacks, And Being Dumb On Planes

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By Mike Kershaw | August 14, 2026

After a multi-year hiatus, the venerable BugTraq mailing list is back! For decades, BugTraq was the place where vulnerabilities were disclosed, from the early days when nearly all vendors viewed …read more
ShieldFont: Bludgeoning AI Scrapers That Disrespect Robots.txt

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By Maya Posch | August 14, 2026

In the more innocent days of the World Wide Web you could simply put a robots.txt file in the root of your website that search engine indexing bots and similar …read more
Mauchly And Eckert’s Other Computers

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By Al Williams | August 14, 2026

If you ask a random person who [John Mauchly] or [J. Presper Eckert] were, you’d probably get a blank stare. Ask a Hackaday reader, and you have a better shot. …read more
Rare IBM PC Brought Back To Life

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By Zoe Skyforest | August 13, 2026

[Epictronics] happens to have a rather special machine in his possession. It’s a rare IBM PC prototype or concept machine from the late 1980s known as the IBM 7496 Executive …read more
Removing Microplastics From Soil With Tumbling Magnetic Flakes

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By Maya Posch | August 13, 2026

While in aquatic environments microplastics can be filtered out relatively easily, in soil it’s much harder to get to these microscopic particles. While you can certainly strip mine an entire …read more

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